What the press writes about us: press releases
“(…) the bloggers choose drastic measures and deliberately provoke to spread their philosophy. Unsurprisingly that creates not only friends: According to the bloggers they are currently facing 13 filed complaints amounting to a sum of half a million Euros. Apart from extraordinary fashion advice and aesthetically borderline styles you can find cunning writing and excessive parties on Dandy Diary, the bloggers host themselves. In spite of party and craziness the authors are proving a superb sense of style. Not only worth checking out for men.”
Flair – Fashion & Home (5. N0vember 2012)
“Smart looking gentlemen are watching the two Foursome tables while sipping Moscow Mule and holding girls in their arms that are competing in age and amount of clothing. Live Jazz is playing in the background, the atmosphere in the bar in the Hamburg Schanze district that has been chosen as the venue for the tournament is brilliantly dodgy. Guests are an exclusive group of friends, models and those who want to one. As always when the Dandy Diary bloggers Carl Jakob Haupt and David Roth organize an event we can be sure: Each and every ego, alcoholic, and model hunter will go home satisfied. The most satisfied however is probably the winner of the Designer Foursome – €1000 – handed over in proper style in a Louis Vuitton vintage briefcase. That’s what the guys from Dandy Diary put out there for the luckiest hand of the evening.”
Sportswear International (5. November 2012)
“The two creatives behind German men’s fashion blog Dandy Diary have created the first ‘Fashion Designer Foursome’ game featuring very entertaining graphics and unusual categories…happy gambling!”
Süddeutsche Zeitung (22. Januar 2012)
“The few gentlemen, mostly pale and tattooed, and the numerous ladies, mostly pale and fleshy, that groan and moan from the erotic film posters would barely make it to pages of the well-maintained “Dandy Diary”, a celebrated blog by the young and stylish fashion journalist and filmmaker David Kurt Karl Roth from Berlin and Carl Jakob Haupt from Hamburg.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (36/2011)
“David Kurt Karl Roth from Berlin and Carl Jakob Haupt from Hamburg, not only both called K/Carl but are also good at writing. Humorous, clever, refreshingly honest.”
Spiegel Online (18.01.2012)
“Most fashion campaigns are sexy but are often satisfied by pure allusions. The two bloggers clearly made a step forward and shot their own film, “El Será Comienzo – perhaps the first fashion-porn in the world.” Not that the protagonists get naked in process, they get dressed. Nevertheless, it is hard to the point.”
Taz – die Tageszeitung (24.01.2012)
“It all started in a sex cinema in Urbanstrasse where both Dandy Diary founders presented their first “Fashion-porn” to the wide public. The crowd consisted of little people, made-up trannies, big men in black masks and little girls with blogs – social outcasts who mingled and cooled each other up. People’s appearances are supposed to breathe in a certain lightness, life is hard enough as it is. Especially during “Fashion Week” when nobody really cares about it. “
Welt kompakt (1. Juli 2012)
“Preach water, drink champagne.”
Spiegel Online (13.02.2012)
“It’s been a while since it’s socially acceptable for men to spend half a month’s salary on designer fashion or limited edition sneakers. Role models for a style-conscious man are to be found in avant-garde magazines such as “Fantastic Man” and fashion blogs like “Bryanboy.com,” “The Fashionisto.com” or “dandy Diary”. He keeps on to the spring trends from John Galliano and Paul Smith. He browses through latest street styles on “The Sartorialist” or learns how to take care of tailor-made shoes properly from “Mr. Porter”.”
Der Freitag (20. Januar 2012)
“Jakob Haupt and David Roth from the German men’s fashion blog” Diary Dandy ” consequently brought the long overdue idea of fashion and sex to the end, the result is a “fashion porn”.”
Textilwirtschaft (12/2012)
“The creators of the blog DandyDiary.de like to provoke. With short films, too. For Berlin Fashion Week in January there was a self-made fashion porn, that attracted a lot of attention in the media nationwide – and has been blocked fairly quickly. Now the guys, or rather one of them, are showing readers a middle finger in a clip entitled “Flip the Bird”. And this in different variations. (…) David Kurt Karl Roth and Jakob Haupt call it an “homage to morality and censorship”.”
Tush (1/2012)
I do not think it’s a movie to which you could very well masturbate.”
De:Bug Magazin (03/2012)
“With the world’s first fashion-porn did the men’s fashion blog “Dandy Diary” gain official conversation material status at Berlin Fashion Week. The makers are not after sensationalism though, no other blog follows and characterizes men’s fashion as high-profile and unusually at the moment.”
BZ – Berliner Zeitung (18. Januar 2012)
“The two bloggers Jakob and David (” Dandy Diary “) invited to the premiere of “Fashion Porn” to a sex shop in Kreuzberg in Urbanstrasse on Tuesday. In a local cinema, the two 27-year-olds screened a three-minute clip containing explicit sex scenes. First, a couple has sex. Then, designer clothes are put back on.”
Die Zeit – Magazin (Nr. 8 / 2010)
“The best moment? – The first comment that was not written by my mother or friends.”
Die Welt (19. Mai 2010)
“Berlin-born David Roth discovered a free market niche in 2009 and established “Dandy Diary”, a German fashion blog for men. Since then, the page is shining with lavishly produced fashion series and provocative scenes that often cross the boundaries of good taste.”
Focus (Focus Spezial, Oktober 2010)
“David Roth, 27 years of age. The Berliner is one of the most renowned German fashion bloggers. http://www.dandydiary.de/ is the link to his posts and elaborate photo series.”
Stylemag (8. Oktober 2010)
“I shall climb the fashion Olympus wearing JW Anderson’s boots.”
Zitty (Januar 2012)
“Dandy Diary is the most exciting style blog for men.”
Traffic (Juli 2010)
“Germany is flooded by fashion blogs. Many websites show what people wear on the streets, what they should wear and what they shouldn’t. For a year now has (…) Dandy Diary been online. With one big difference though: it is for men.”
Tip (August 2010)
“I plead to following every trend.”
Großeltern Report (3. März 2010)
“For a group photo Roth was wearing a black hat decorated with metal wire and nails, a pair of pants from H&M – and the shroud of his grandfather. Grosseltern Report asked the young man how he got round to it.”
ArtRebels (15. Juni 2011)
„In a time when blogs often receive more attention than major news publications, we thought it was appropriate to catch up with a mastermind behind German men’s fashion. David Roth, an eccentric fashion blogger for DandyDiary and an editor of BerlinFashion TV, can be spotted around Berlin either sporting a suit or looking rather homeless; two styles that Mr. Roth genuinely enjoys.”
ARD Nachtmagazin (21. Januar 2012)
